Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Notes

Notes

Apple Notes functions as a service for making short text notes.

Product categories

Cloud Storage Documents Knowledge Base Knowledge Management Note Taking Notes Office & Productivity Personal Notes Productivity Project Management Task Management Todos

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Notes are Orgzly, Simplenote, and Cryptee. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Orgzly Landing Page
1

Orgzly

Outliner for notes, tasks and to-dos
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Task Management #Office & Productivity 14 social mentions
Simplenote Landing Page
2

Simplenote

The simplest way to keep notes. Light, clean, and free. Simplenote is now available for iOS, Android, Mac, and the web.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Task Management #Project Management 78 social mentions
Cryptee Landing Page
3

Cryptee

Cryptee is a safety and privacy focused, encrypted and cross-platform personal data storage service. You can write personal documents, notes, journals, store photos and all sorts of other files.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- €3.0 / Monthly (10GB)
#Photos #Note Taking #Cloud Storage 79 social mentions
Notion Landing Page
4

Notion

All-in-one workspace. One tool for your whole team. Write, plan, and get organized.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Productivity #Work Collaboration #Note Taking 438 social mentions
Joplin Landing Page
5

Joplin

Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Note Taking #Notes #Todos 350 social mentions
Notesnook Landing Page
6

Notesnook

Notesnook is a simple and private note taking app that keeps your notes organized and synced on your phone, tablet and computer.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $4.49 / Monthly (UI Themes & accents)
#Notes #Personal Notes #Note Taking 84 social mentions
Notabase.io Landing Page
7

Notabase.io

Notabase is a powerful and easy-to-use note-taking app for networked thinking. Connect your ideas together and write more effortlessly.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
#Notes #Note Taking #Personal Knowledge Base 8 social mentions
Zim Wiki Landing Page
8

Zim Wiki

Zim is a graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#WiKi #Note Taking #Task Management 115 social mentions
Dendron Landing Page
9

Dendron

Dendron is an open-source, local-first, markdown-based, note-taking tool built on top of VSCode. It supports all the usual features you would expect like tagging, backlinks, a graph view, split panes, and so forth.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- $5.0 / Monthly (Custom domain name for publishing.)
#Note Taking #Knowledge Management #Knowledge Base 21 social mentions
Turtl Landing Page
10

Turtl

The secure, collaborative notebook
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $3.0 / Monthly
#Task Management #Note Taking #Team Collaboration 27 social mentions
Elephant Landing Page
11

Elephant

Elephant is a notetaker with a classic interface you already know.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Todos #Task Management
Obsidian Landing Page
12

Obsidian

GraphQL caching tool for the Deno runtime environment
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Todos #Personal Notes